Motivational Quotes

Death

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Death

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr. Martin Luther

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

William Shakespeare

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

10.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Buffett, Jimmy

19.

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Dickinson, Emily

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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Gide, Andre

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Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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To stop sinning suddenly.

Hubbard, Elbert

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To awake from death is to die in peace.

Horton, Doug

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I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Cocteau, Jean

28.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Herodotus

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Barker, Clive

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For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff, George

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Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

44.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

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I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

Craig Volk

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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.